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Top Jazz-Rock Fusion Recordings

by Douglas Groothuis
April 27, 2021

The emergence of jazz-rock fusion in American music in the late 1960s was controversial. To some, those who played it were traitors to the cause of jazz. Others thought it has saved jazz from extinction. Sometime in the 1960s, rock had eclipsed jazz in popularity in America, and many jazz aficionados were none too happy about ...

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Heavy Weather

By Weather Report

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Birdland; A Remark You Made; Teen Town; Harlequin; Rumba Mamá; Palladíum; The Juggler; Havona.

News: Recording

Weather Report's Classic Album "Heavy Weather" To Be Released On Limited Edition Hybrid SACD

July 30, 2017

Jazz aficionados rejoice! Mrshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity is releasing pioneering jazz-rock fusion legends Weather Report's classic album Heavy Weather on Limited Edition Hybrid SACD! Heavy Weather remains the touchstone—and easily the best-selling album by Weather Report. Formed in 1971 and continuing until 1986, the group's creative axis was keyboardist/composer Joe Zawinul and saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter. Borrowing ...

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Weather Report: Heavy Weather

Read "Heavy Weather" reviewed by Sacha O'Grady

by Sacha O'Grady
February 15, 2017

Weather Report were one of the earliest jazz fusion groups to emerge at the beginning of the '70s. They were rare in that, like Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, they didn't have a guitarist to light the fire and excite the audience as was the case with Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever; instead, they relied, in addition ...

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